6.3 Climate change — mitigation and adaptationIB Environmental Systems and Societies SL: Flashcards
What these 13 flashcards ask
- Why is global action needed on climate change?
- What is decarbonisation?
- Define mitigation.
- Define adaptation.
- Give three mitigation strategies.
- Give three adaptation strategies.
- What is carbon sequestration?
- What is carbon leakage?
- What is a NAPA?
- Which country was one of the first to produce a NAPA?
- Give an example of decarbonisation.
- Why is adaptation alone not enough?
- Give a positive consequence that adaptation might exploit.
Written by the Exaim team, led by Shaun Daswani (Head of Upper Secondary, Improve ME Institute; MSc Financial Mathematics, Imperial College London; BSc, UCL) and Jason Daswani (operational lead, Improve ME Institute; LSE).